Yo.
I like to welcome everybody back to a brand new episode of the Cognitive Comanche podcast.
I am your host Quentin Golden.
But friends and family, they call me QG for short.
So you can do the same.
Let's get right into it, man.
I think in this past week, I've really been, I feel like I've been tested by the universe.
You know what I'm saying?
Things that should have broke me made me stronger.
You know what I mean?
And things that I usually would get upset about, I've been letting go.
Life is life.
And you're going to have situations that's out of your control, some things that you
may have to control over.
But regardless of what type of situation it is that life throws at you, you have two ways
to approach it.
You can approach it with intelligence or you can approach it with emotion.
And I mean, they have vastly different results.
You know what I'm saying?
So I'm fully aware of the fact that you can't control how you feel.
Something's going to make you mad, yeah.
You can't help that you're mad about it.
But how you respond to it is totally within your power.
So I would think of that as like an intelligent approach.
Taking the time to stop and think.
So, you know, things in the past that would have broke me now make me stronger.
Things that I would have felt myself either sad or like extremely mad about, I laugh at.
And this ain't some overnight type of shit.
Like this took, I mean years of self-reflection and just, you know, trying to see everything
from every angle.
Like, all right, yeah, I feel this way.
But what about that person over there?
What did I do to make them feel that type of way?
And I feel personally like I've really grown a lot.
You know what I'm saying?
So to my soul to the point that I started a podcast.
But I see all that to say, hey man, put your best foot forward when you find something
that's gotten under your skin.
Stop taking time to think.
You know what I mean, and try to approach with intelligence over emotion.
Now not attend to results, it's going to be better.
At least what I believe.
Like, if you want to fly off the handle, like have a blast.
I'm going to sit back and watch.
You know what I'm saying?
Maybe get too crazy.
I'm going to get the fuck out of that crazy, you know.
People are crazy.
Everybody's crazy.
But it's like two degrees.
Speaking of, well not speaking of people being crazy, but I was kind of having a conversation
with somebody and they kept using the word normal.
Like, oh, this is normal.
This isn't normal type of shit.
So the more they said it, the more I stopped and I thought about it and I was like, well,
who dictates what's normal?
You know what I'm saying, like, who's this prototypical person that normal is based on?
Normal height, normal weight.
Oh wait, your favorite food is, I don't know, avocados with coconut on it.
That's not normal, but according to whom?
Everything is suspected based.
And I think a lot of the times the conflict that we might have in life comes from can't
be too much about something that doesn't directly affect us.
You know what I'm saying?
Me, I allow people to be people and I would hope that people would allow me to just be
me.
I feel like I'm a unique individual.
The shit that I like don't correspond with each other at all.
Like, perfect example.
I'm the type of person where I'll watch a TED talk and then right after that I'll watch
some YouTube videos about gang robberies in a small town across the state or across the
country, I mean.
Then right after that, I'm going to watch somebody on YouTube break down like the anthology
or like Marvel.
And I thought about this.
You know what I'm saying?
Let's say if we created a time capsule and it was just filled with Marvel comic books
or something and then whatever happens, civilization happens, whatever.
Long story short, let's say 200 years from now.
Somebody happened to, they're doing some kind of like digging or some shit and they come
across as time caps.
And if they don't have any other literature and they open up this time capsule and get
those comic books out and they start reading it, then you might have my own fucking story
like, yo, I'm from the church of Spider-Man.
Well, over here in the church of Batman, we feel that like, yo, if you really think about
the comic books have the potential to become like modern day mythology.
Because if you study any of those stories like about Thor or not Marvel Thor, but like,
you know, like, what's the one in Greek?
No, they was Norse.
Yeah, Norse.
So you got Odin and all of those guys and you hear the stories, they can control lightning
and Poseidon can, what's the Poseidon?
Poseidon, I know I'm saying this name wrong.
Poseidon, Poseidon, control the oceans and all this.
And you have some people where like that is their religion and they fully believe that
and they got all rights to it.
So I just think about like, what if one day, you know, some people come across like a stack
of like Avenger comic books and they just take it as like religious texts?
That should be crazy.
That would be a good concept for a movie actually.
Where like, you know, they send, they send, I don't know, 10,000 spaceships for the like
people, the, you know, the colonize like a planet like Mars or whatever planet where
we would be able to survive.
And if for whatever reason, Shikobad there, and because there's been no life on Earth
for the past whatever amount of centuries that now they can go back and they can transform
Earth and like live there.
But as they go back, they started like dig up shit and they're like, they're finding
like the golden archers of McDonald's.
And then, you know, they might misinterpret it and think that like the infant McDonald's
stands for man or some shit.
And then somebody discovered like a Burger King like, I don't know, coupon or some shit.
And they go, well, clearly he was the king.
That should be crazy.
I know I keep talking about this, but this AI shit is getting scarier by the day.
I'm watching this shit.
And they were, they were talking to like one of the programs.
I want to say this might have been through Google, I believe, and they're speaking to
it and none of it is like pre-programmed for them to respond a certain way.
They more or less like try to give it free will.
So as they're talking to the AI, they start asking questions like, hey, what do you think
that the earth will like, you know, be non-existent or that humans will become extinct?
And this motherfucker said 2040, which seems like a long time away, but it's not right
now.
It was 2024.
1994 was 30 years ago.
Think about that shit.
It's crazy.
I still look at shit from the nineties on my TV land or streaming sites, whatever.
And I feel like that shit is currently happening because it's so nostalgic.
I feel in the moment.
But you told that shit was 30 years ago.
We are the last generation who will know what life was like prior to social media.
Think about that.
And I'm speaking for like, I guess I would be a millennial, I guess.
People born in the seventies and the eighties in the nineties.
Yeah, the nineties, I guess, just didn't really start getting social media like early
2000s, but we are the last of the last who know what life was prior to everybody having
a cell phone and prior to like the access to like social media or the internet in general.
So now back in the days, if you didn't see how to I was somebody, it probably was like
a classmate or like a neighbor who was like a block or something.
Now there's dudes who's like in like New Mexico, who got beef with guys in Chicago.
Or you got people in like Idaho, who got beef with people in Nebraska all via the internet.
Like this shit is crazy.
And because I do music or whatever, the internet killed regional music.
Like I mean, I mean from a standpoint of like, it killed the regional sound.
You know, I'm that old guy now back in my days.
But back when I was younger, if you turned on the radio, you can listen to the song.
Oh, that's from New York.
Oh, they sound like they from LA.
Oh, they sound like they might be from Texas or they might be from Florida or oh, they
got that Midwest twang to like crucial conflict.
Like they must be from like Chicago or something like that.
Nowadays, everything sounds like everything.
That's why groups like Griselda are important.
You know, saying like they have that old not old because I don't want to use that because
that's usually taken in a negative way.
They have that vintage.
That's a good use of music.
They have that vintage sound.
It's like classic East Coast New York sound, which I have to grow up on.
I grew up on everything, like everything and not just rap.
Like, yo, listen.
So when I was a younger guy, about 14, 15 is whatever, you know, I did whatever I did
outside trying to, you know, validate my toughness, stupid shit, wasted time pretty much.
But even in the midst of all of that shit, I will watch Dawson Creek and I fucking love
Dawson's Creek.
Like to the point where like, I'm talking to like a homeboy, man, this actually was
this past week.
And like, I was just telling this nigga, like the full timeline of fucking Dawson's Creek.
I'm like, yeah, he had a girl, Joey, who always had a crush on him, but Dawson, even
he was oblivious to it or he just was naive.
But she used to climb up the tree and cross his room and they landed there together.
In high school, if a girl was climbing through my window to lay in the bed, we not fucking
cuddling.
Is you crazy?
But then he had a homeboy named Pacey was kind of like a dickhead.
But then some girl named Michelle moves to town.
She blonde Dawson blonde and instantly he likes her because she's blonde pretty much.
And then she had a brother who I can recall his name right now, but he was like the quarterback
to like the varsity football team.
But turns out he was gay.
And I remember that was like a whole big thing like about him getting exposed and then he
wanted to like self-delete.
But I mean, he didn't.
But the show like really does into those topics.
So like, I think it's like, man, watch that shit.
I'm like, bro, I know the theme song by heart.
Yo, that's kind of like a weird thing.
I'm telling you any, any theme song from the nineties, I know the lyrics to every nineties
theme song, words for word, I'm talking full house.
I'm talking step by step.
I'm talking fucking family matters.
Any show that had like lyrics to like Frasier.
Like, yo, I love Frasier growing up.
I was a weird kid.
I remember I used to be super into wrestling too.
Like, I was a big W W F guy.
And then like the World Wildlife Federation Foundation make them change it to like WWE
and some shit.
And then like kids at my school like WCW, I was just like, fuck WCW.
If we would literally be about the site over WWS at the time versus WCW.
So clearly me and my boys, we was degeneration next, throwing big sucky signs at everybody
in the hallway.
But then you had these niggas coming out of the hallway doing a little wolf shit with
their fingers screaming in W.O.
And it was just a simple time, man.
I remember like my biggest concerns in life at the time was what we were going to have
for dinner.
And if the girl in my class liked me back because as far as school, like school was
never like, it was never hard for me, honestly.
You know what I'm saying, like, I don't know, I could just retain information.
Plus, if you really think about it, you come to school on Monday, they're going to teach
you a subject or introduction to the subject.
Then Tuesday, they're going to teach you some more about the subject.
Then Wednesday, you'll have like a drill about it.
And then Thursday, you'll have like a quiz.
And then Friday, you'll have an action test.
And if you just take the time to read over it a few times and shit, like it'll eventually
start to click.
So then I start the question, like, is it a matter of being an intelligence or just
having a good memory?
But it's having a good memory is sound of intelligence.
I don't know.
Maybe.
I don't know.
But see what I used to do, like I correlate things that I'm familiar with with new and
information that I'm learning and see if I could like almost like Venn diagram and like
find that centerpiece where they connect.
So if I had to remember like a specific date and let's say for just an example that the
date was like 1852, I'm a big sports guy.
So Peyton Manning, Jersey is 18.
Ray Lewis was 52.
So if I saw whatever the subject was, whatever war, I'm like, oh, that's the war of 1852.
But my mind I go, oh, that's the war Peyton Manning, Ray Lewis.
And I just never forgot it.
And I would just apply that to anything I could apply to.
And that's it.
That's it.
But oh, yeah, jumping all over the place.
Back to the AI shit I was talking about.
So they were talking about the world within like 2040 or something like that.
But then the guy asked the program that goes, yo, how would you kill all humans?
And his response was easily.
They go, what's the fact one, you could take it as a joke.
Was in much of a funny joke.
But the fact that it was smart enough not to reveal how it would do it.
But it stated that if it was to do it, it would easily be done.
And these niggas is like, let's make me smarter.
Are you niggas crazy?
And the words of my homeboy twigs, I know you fucking lie.
Yo, nigga.
Like they made.
It's a whole genre of film dedicated to robots rising up and killing us.
And we are doing everything in our power to create that exact genre.
But in real life, I was actually watching an anime on Netflix recently.
So they just released like this Terminator anime.
Phenomenal.
Phenomenal, right?
It's drawn beautifully like the story is like the story is great.
But they have AI in that too, which is like pretty much like Skynet versus I forgot what
AI they were building.
But like they were breaking down the history of the world robot and come to find out by
definition, at least one of the definitions of robot is slaves.
So the AI in the Terminator anime started questioning like, yo, what's your purpose of
building?
Do you want me to have my own thoughts or are you trying to make me a slave?
And when they said this, I said, what the fuck?
And then I started watching that shit once it went off.
It was great series.
And then I happened to stumble across some videos about AI and like it sounds so good.
So similar.
It's like life imitating art or art imitating life or vice versa.
I don't know.
It's funny that the word vice versa pretty much stands for evil or, but you can't say
versa vice because it would make no fucking sense.
So the fact that vice versa can't be vice versa.
You know what I'm saying?
I probably sound nuts right now, but that's why y'all tuned in.
Whatever three listeners are currently listening.
Oh, all right.
So I asked somebody this question and I posed this question to y'all as well.
And y'all can, you know, send me a DM or leave a comment or something wherever I post this.
Both of these are fucked up situations.
I'm going to say that from the game.
But if you had to choose one, would you rather be stranded in the desert or would you rather
be stranded in the woods?
And I'm not talking about like a five mile hike and then you can get out to the main road.
I'm talking about Pacific North, like North.
Yeah.
The Pacific North, like that area, like that Washington, Oregon, like niggas, it's hundreds
of miles of woods and just smack dab in the middle.
Would you rather try your chances there or would you ever be in the desert?
And I know what most of you are probably thinking, you know, I'm going to take the woods.
You could potentially find something to eat.
You could potentially find shelter in the trees or, you know what I'm saying?
Like you could, you could survive because the desert is just the desert.
But just like you out there trying to find shelter in something to eat.
So it's every single wild animal that's out there.
Wolves, coyotes, bears, whatever else the fuck they got in the orchard.
Oregon and Washington, like I might go desert, but this is a common misconception that people
have about the desert during the daytime.
It's what it's sweltering.
It's extremely hot, but the desert gets cold as shit at night.
Like most people right now know that about the moon.
Like, yo, the surface of the moon during the day is out of shit because it's getting directly
hit by the sun.
But then at night, as the, as the, as it wrote up, well, the moon doesn't rotate, but as
the sun might rotate once it like, once that part of the moon is that's not being hit by
the sunlight.
That shit is like negative like 150 Fahrenheit.
First of all, the freezing point of Fahrenheit is 32 degrees.
Now add negative 132 degrees.
Yeah, yo, I'm talking like if you threw a cup of water in the air, it would freeze in
the air before it hit the turn.
I think it's going to go to the moon, go to Mars, but anyways, would you pick the desert
or would you pick the, the source?
Not to be grim, but I'd rather just be some fucking bones in the sand.
They're like, I ain't trying to get ate by no fucking bear.
And this is the thing that most people don't know about bears too is that they're not going
to like completely devalue you right in there.
Let's say like starving or some shit.
For the most part, they'll like bite off your leg or some shit and then they'll just drag
you back to wherever it is like hot out is.
And they'll go by the rest of that day, go fishing, go frow like whatever, bears or other
shit, kill some other animals.
And then they're going to double back to you later that night, just like fucking leftovers
from chilies and they're going to eat you later on.
So hopefully you bleed out before they get back.
Damn, this shit took a grim ass turn.
But we're all about peace and positivity and uplifted in the positive mindset.
So disregard everything I just said about a bed, eating you like children's, don't even
worry about that.
Strike that from the right.
The world is scary, but it's exciting.
Life is fucking scary, but it's also exciting.
I feel like, you know, people always, you know, the old saying life is what you make
it.
And I used to just take that as like, you know, that's just some, that's just some shit
to say, but it's actually true.
What's kind of go back to how this whole thing started about, you know, your responses to
things like you can't help how you feel.
A situational person or anything can make you feel a way that you can't help.
That's just human nature.
But how you respond is totally in your control.
Trust and believe.
You know what I'm saying?
Like I find myself now, like I try not to flop the handle because, you know, life is short
or it can be in a grand scheme of things.
Life is short.
Because if you think about how long the earth existed and now you're, I don't know, if you're
lucky you're 90 years of life, it's like a fucking drop in the ocean of like time in
the grand scheme of things.
So life is relatively short, even if you live like 90 years or some shit.
So life is truly what you make it.
And like lately I've been really trying to practice that where, you know, I wake up
and I have a day off and I'm tired from work for the past week, but it's just like, all
right, I can lay around, which is great.
Don't get me wrong, but it's just like, yo, get up and make a memory, bro.
I might just go to my local comic shop, which is like Chuck's comic and then I think it's
Collectors Corner somewhere near there.
So I go in there, read a comic book, I get some Funko Pops, make small talk with the
customers coming in and out or the people that work there.
Then I might leave from there.
I might go to Target.
Let's walk around.
Well, if you know what nothing in mind to buy when I first get there, but now I might just
see some random knickknacks and go, Oh, I can use that.
It's like a paper towel holder that looks like a duck or some shit, some stupid shit.
And I'll get it.
Then I might go to the mall, get past me because go to food court, give me a little
sandwich, and then I'll come back home, put down all my new random shit I purchased, take
a shower and then I might just watch horror movies.
It's like, damn.
I could have just laid here today, but instead as some conversations or some cool shit or
some shit I didn't need.
I'm at the point in my life where I just want to enjoy life.
So any negative shit that I can avoid, I'm trying my best to avoid.
It doesn't mean that things doesn't make me upset or even sad for that matter, but I
can't let it dictate me.
I got to dictate life.
You know what I'm saying?
So if you take anything from this episode, it's just that it's cliche as it sounds that
life is what you make it.
It's probably one of the true statements ever spoken.
Now I get it.
Some circumstances are harder for others.
Like some people can't just go get in that car.
They don't have a car.
Some people ain't got a house to take that shit back to because they live wherever they
live.
So I get it, it's easier said than done, but just adjust to your circumstances.
Shit, hop on a bus, go to the mall.
Buy what you can afford.
Have conversations with a random stranger.
That's my homework for y'all.
This upcoming week, during your day to day, no matter where you are, if you're in a restaurant,
if you're at the mall, if you at work for that matter, a person you never spoke to, just
walk up to him and go, hey, how you doing?
You never know.
You might make a friend.
Or you'll walk away and then go, yo, what's up with this fucking widow?
Which is also fine.
If there's anybody in your life that you're mad at, forgive them.
Or stay mad at them.
Evil.
You got to determine that.
That's the person who's talking shit.
But what I'm saying on is to say that at any moment, life can have a cosmic shift.
In a good way or a bad way.
But either way, don't waste your time.
It's fragile.
Life is fragile.
I'm rambling at this point, but that's what y'all come to know me for.
Like, if you even made it to this point in the park, yes.
Oh, yeah.
So two days ago, I was at yesterday.
Yeah, yesterday.
I was in the studio at my home, just like recording the shit.
And I used auto tune for like the second time in my life.
And I attempted to sing and it actually came out really, really good.
And I made a post about her on my story and I tagged T-Pain on some joking shit.
Like, yo, T-Pain, step your game up.
LOL.
I'm not thinking about it.
See, I was later or it might have been the next one.
I don't know.
But I go to look to see who looked at my story.
Fucking T-Pain was on that.
Now, granted, he didn't say anything to me, but it was cool.
Because I did it on some just like, I'll be drinking the Capri Sun and I'll put it in
the camera, go, Capri Sun, sign your board.
I'm just doing it because I'm bored.
And it's fun.
But that nigga actually looked at my shit.
Shout out to T-Pain, man.
Super talented dude.
And for the people who only think that T-Pain is like auto tune, you should really get
like no pun in tune with Misa fucking hell of a singer without all of that shit and
a hell of a songwriter.
He's just a super talented dude.
So putting this shit in the universe, I'm going to do a song with T-Pain 2020 size.
It's going to happen.
And with all of that being said, I'm out here, man.
I'm here for a good time, not a long time.
So for anybody who made it to this point, I want to thank you for listening.
I hope you have a safe and productive week.
I hope any goal that you're chasing, you get one step closer to it and look, you know,
it's not capturing it all together.
I've been your host, Quentin Golden, QG for short.
You can follow me on Instagram at QGMusic.
That's QGMUSIC at instagram.com.
And I'm out of here.
Peace!